President Bola Tinubu has appealed to state governors to commence payment of salary wage awards to civil servants pending the determination of the new minimum wage.
Mr Tinubu made the appeal in Minna at the flag-off of the agricultural mechanisation revolution for food security and the commissioning of the remodelled domestic terminal of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport in Minna.
According to him, the intervention will reduce the current economic hardship being faced by many Nigerians
He noted that, if implemented, the wage would provide much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures on the economy.
He said: “If all of you, the sub-nationals, have been paying the wage award, pending the determination of the new salary wage. Let all the states start paying the wage award. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage award would relieve the public.
“Please, I am not giving an order, I am appealing to you states, start paying the wage awards, let everyone start paying it. It is a relief to the people.
“The mechanism is the fact that it won’t be inflationary if we announce the new salary wage in a few weeks or months, they would have gotten used to the basic wages of N30,000 plus the wages award, and it will have a dampening effect on the market. Please get sub-nationals together, and NEC should adopt this.”
